There are more than 350 careers across health and social care and 9000 vacancies in these roles in North East London. The North East London Health & Care Careers Project helps schools and students learn more about the health and social careers available and offers advice on how to get these jobs through study and apprenticeships.
We are looking for young people to help us get this right!
Are you aged between 16 and 19? Do you have an interest in health and social care and keen to gain work experience and develop your CV? Can you represent the voice of your friends and other young people in North East London? You may be just who we are looking for.
How the Young Person’s Panel will help us
You will represent people just like you – young people aged 16 and above – to make sure everything we do, is understood and exciting to those that we are trying to influence. Some of the tasks you may be involved in include:
- Talking to young people and Schools to find out what they know about jobs in health and social care
- Asking young people how we can make our careers website more useful
- Helping us with social media, messages and images to increase our followers
- Producing blogs, videos, flyers and images to use within our marketing material
What’s in it for you?
- Develop your leadership, project management and communication skills.
- Learn more about health and social care and gain work placement points that are needed in many Health and Social Care courses
- Build a network of contacts and references
- Support with job seeking and CV development
What do we want from you?
- Participation at virtual and F2F hour long monthly meetings with members of the NEL HCP Careers Programme Team
- An hour’s preparation time in advance of the meeting for any reading and research that may be required
Interested?
We want to hold our first meeting in November. If you are interested in taking part, please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with a brief explanation as to why you would like to join our Young Person’s Panel. Closing date is 8th October 2021
